03114cam a22005178i 4500 25363 25363 5110173 MeVbMML 20190502000741.0 150605s2016 nyu 000 j eng 2015021779 9780385541039 (hardcover) 0385541031 (hardcover) (OCoLC)ocn910826896 (OCoLC)910826896 (OCoLC)908517255 (OCoLC)933528743 5102674 DLC eng rda DLC YDXCP BTCTA BDX ZPP DAD OCLCO OI6 OCLCO IV7 ABG pcc PS3555.L5965 A6 2016 813/.54 23 Ellis, H. ELLIS H Ellis, Helen, author. 4678 Short stories. Selections American housewife : stories / Helen Ellis. First edition. New York : Doubleday, 2016. xi, 188 pages ; 20 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier What I do all day -- The wainscoting war -- Dumpster diving with the stars -- Southern lady code -- Hello! Welcome to book club -- The fitter -- How to be a grown-ass lady -- How to be a patron of the arts -- Dead doormen -- Pageant protection -- Take it from cats -- My novel is brought to you by the good people at Tampax. Meet the women of American Housewife: they wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. They pump the salad spinner like it's a CPR dummy. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies out of the oven. These twelve irresistible stories take us from a haunted prewar Manhattan apartment building to the set of a rigged reality television show, from the unique initiation ritual of a book club to the getaway car of a pageant princess on the lam, from the gallery opening of a tinfoil artist to the fitting room of a legendary lingerie shop. Vicious, fresh, and nutty as a poisoned Goo Goo Cluster,American Housewife is an uproarious, pointed commentary on womanhood. --Publisher Women Fiction. 4679 Femininity Fiction. 4680 Revenge Fiction. 1595 Short stories, American. 4681 ddc BOOK ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2018-02-01 24.00 1 978 ELLI 37403 2021-09-23 2021-09-09 2018-02-01 BOOK